George miller



(No Model.)

G. MILLER.

MACHINE POB. DRYING BARRELS.

'PfhtenizedFebI 10, 1885.

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Nrrnn Erarns GEORGE MILLER, OF LAKE VIEW, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO DANIELW'.

RYAN, OF SAME PLAGE. D

MACHINE FOR DRYING BARRELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,002, dated February10, 1885.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, GEORGE MILLER, of LakeView, county of Cook, andState of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inMachines for Drying Barrels, `of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to machines for drying barrels in the process ofmaking; and it consists in an inner and an outer steam-heater, withspace betweensufiicient to allow an unheaded barrel to be placedtherein, so that the outer heater will closely surround the outside, andthe inner one will come near t-he staves on the inside of the barrel,whereby both the outside and the inside ot' the staves are quickly driedat the same time and without being Warped or dra-wn out of shape. Icontemplate using the heaters so arranged both with and without aninclosing-tank.

rPhe accompanying drawings illustrate the invention.

Figure lis an elevation showing` the machine in position to receive abarrel, a portion being broken away to show the interior construction.Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the machine closed, with a barrelinclosed therein.

A is an outer tank provided with a lid or cover, A. The heaters areplaced within the tank, O designating the outer one and O the inner one.There is sufficient open space between the heaters to allow an unheadedbarrel to pass in, so that the outer one will be outside of and theinner one inside of the barrel. rIhe heaters are best made of a singlepipe, E D, which may be coiled from the top down, so as to first formthe outer heater, and thence carried in at the bottom and coiled up,forming the inner heater, from the top of which it may be carried downinside of the inner one, as seen at D. rIhe heaters, however, rnay bemade in any of the well-known ways of making steam or water heaters.

To facilitate the putting in and taking out of the barrel, I employ aplate, B, which is of the proper diameter to pass within the outerheater, and has an opening in the eenter ofthe proper diameter to allowthe inner heater to pass through it, so that the part between theopening and the outer edge of the plate shall substantially ll the widthof the open space between the heaters. This plate is suspended on rods aa attached to the cover. The cover is suspended on a cord, b, passing upover a pulley overhead, and provided with a conuterbalancingweight soarranged that slight force will raise or lower the cover with the platesuspended thereto. Guide-rods c are attached to ears on the cover, andslide up and down through holes a in ears on the tank to prevent thecover from swinging. g equally well it' attached to the tank and made toslide lthrough holes or grooves in the ears of the cover. Short tubes cct or openings are provided in the cover to allow the vapor from thedrying barrel to pass oft'.

In setting up the machine the top of the machine should be placed abouton a level with the iloorvot1 the room in which it is set up, so thatwhen the lid is raised the plate B will be brought up about even withthe iioor. In this way the barrel can be rolled from the floor onto theplate without lifting.

The operation is as follows, assuming the heaters Ito be hot and themachine closed: By means of the cord o the cover is raised until theplate B is even with the Hoor, or to the position shown in Fig. 1.` rlhebarrel B is then placed on the plate, just outside of the centralopening. By means of the cord the lid is now let down, and the barrelthereby The guide-rods will work` placed or lowered between the heaters,one

on the inside and the other outside, as shown in Fig. 2, in whichposition it is left for about thirty minutes, when it will be thoroughlydried. It is then raised out and vthe trusshoops driven home.

1. In a barrel-drier, an outer heater and an inner heater, as O C,combined and arranged with reference to each other, substantially as andfor the purpose speciiied.

2. In a barreldrier, a tank, as A, provided with a lid, as A', incombination with an outer and an inner heater, as O C', substantially asand for the purpose specified.

3. In a barreldrier, an outer heater, as G, and an inner heater, as O',in combination with a plate, asA B, having a central opening, andmechanism for operating the same in the space between the heaters,substantially as and for the purpose specified.

Witnesses: GEORGE MILLER.

J oHN H. WEIPPLE, DANI-EL W. RYAN.

